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The Green Mountain Giant is a large free-standing boulder in Whitingham, Vermont, USA. It is 125 feet in circumference and weighs 3,400 tons. It is a glacial erratic, the largest in Vermont (citation needed) and one of the largest New England. A glacier scraped it up from the nearby Green Mountains then left it behind when it retreated.
Glacial erratic [1] Madison Boulder [2] Whitingham, VT [3] 19th century description [4] Pictures [5]
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Boulder
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitingham,_Vermont
- ^ http://openlibrary.org/b/OL20623094M/Report_on_the_Geology_of_Vermont__Descriptive__Theoretical__Economical__and_...
- ^ http://www.anr.state.vt.us/DEC/geo/GreenMtnGiant.htm
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| This article about a regional geological feature is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
The Green Mountain Giant is a large free-standing boulder in Whitingham, Vermont, USA. It is 125 feet in circumference and weighs 3,400 tons. It is a glacial erratic, the largest in Vermont (citation needed) and one of the largest New England. A glacier scraped it up from the nearby Green Mountains then left it behind when it retreated.
Glacial erratic [1] Madison Boulder [2] Whitingham, VT [3] 19th century description [4] Pictures [5]
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_erratic
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Boulder
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitingham,_Vermont
- ^ http://openlibrary.org/b/OL20623094M/Report_on_the_Geology_of_Vermont__Descriptive__Theoretical__Economical__and_...
- ^ http://www.anr.state.vt.us/DEC/geo/GreenMtnGiant.htm